Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 18:13:21 +1000 (EST)
From: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
To: "David P. Quigley" <dpquigl@tycho.nsa.gov>
cc: sds@tycho.nsa.gov, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, casey@schaufler-ca.com,
       ebiederm@xmission.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, selinux@tycho.nsa.gov
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Security/sysfs: Enable security xattrs to be set on
 sysfs files, directories, and symlinks.
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On Tue, 21 Jul 2009, David P. Quigley wrote:

> Looking more closely at the problem I was mistaken. I was concerned with
> the dereferenceing of the dentry in the first line of the getxattr
> function but it seems that a precondition for us getting that far is
> that we will always have a valid dentry at that point. I'd appreciate it
> if the people whose code the patch touches can review the patch again
> and either NAK with more comments or sign off on it.

Please repost them with a version number so we know exactly which patches 
we're looking at.


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James Morris
<jmorris@namei.org>
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